from Teller Colorado History 

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They ( the Miners ) believed that while working down in a mine the ghosts or spirits of dead miners who had been killed in mines would come to claim their souls. 

When all was quiet down in the mine shaft sometimes the miners would hear a taping, the sound of a pick hitting rock. 

 This was the sound of a Tommy Knocker and many, many times when this sound was heard there would soon be a cave in of the mine and many miners lost their lives this way. 

Therefore, when the miners heard this sound those who believed in the Tommy Knockers would run from the mine and would not return to work in it again. 

consider this: what it would feel like if you woke up one night and heard that sound coming from under your bed.

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